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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You have never taken a book to the beach?

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not only that, they will be full of sand within a week, if they are not stolen

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is a take one and leave one setup so they can’t be stolen and the same books aren’t expected to be out there for long periods of time.

    Perhaps the most well-known is the extensive beach library at Albena, a restort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea. Designed by German architect Herman Kompernas, it’s built to withstand the sun, water, and wind, and equipped with a vinyl cover to protect the books in rain. It reopened this May with more than 6,000 volumes in 15 languages, all totally free to take — and visitors are encouraged to leave their own tomes for others.

    www.atlasobscura.com/…/libraries-on-the-beach

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We do this with “little libraries” all around the northern US at least.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We have them scattered around here in the middle of the US too.

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• bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah if your beach gets 1 beach enjoyer a year. And its not like you leave super exotic rare medieval books there.

  And the best books are worn books

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  • Wbear@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And its not like you leave super exotic rare medieval books there.

    Ok but that would be a cool beach.

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• Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah but think of the beach bonfire you can have. You don’t need to even bring fire wood

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel dumb that I needed this explained to me. Thanks.

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  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lol I mean, I’m sure it’s probably still cool, and books are meant to be swapped out not taken to read on the beach and returned, but I feel the hotel or parking lot would’ve been a better area lol.

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